Richard Gibson (composer)

Richard Gibson (composer)
Richard Gibson (born December 13, 1953) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, and Professor of Composition at the Université de Moncton in New Brunswick.
He is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, and a member of the Canadian League of Composers.
Gibson has also been active as a producer for classical recordings. One of these – the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra's Forbidden City Tour CD – won an East Coast Music Award (ECMA) in 2008 for Classical Recording of the Year.
Education
B.Mus., Dalhousie University (Steve Tittle, composition)
M.Mus., University of Western Ontario (Peter Paul Koprowski, composition)
PhD, King's College London (David Lumsdaine, composition)
Awards
1983 – First Prize, Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) competition for young composers
1992 – New Brunswick Award for Excellence in Arts
Compositions
Solo works
Nightingales for Katy (flute) 1982
Cantilena (guitar) 1984
Sonate (saxophone) 1984
Resonances (percussion) 1985
Sept Miniatures (guitar) 1986
Hemispheres (bass guitar) 1987
Prélude, Fugue et Allegro Vivace (piano) 1987
25 Préludes (piano) 1996
Cora (percussion) 2000
Lepidoptera (piano) 2002
You gotta move (trumpet) 2002
Julia – Variaciones sobre un tema de Juan Lennon (guitar) 2013
Chamber works
Les Îles (12 brass) 1976
Oboe Piece (oboe, piano) 1976
Free Flight I (trumpet, fixed media) 1977
What? Not Another Dance! (3 percussion) 1977
Oboe Metamorphosis (oboe, fixed media) 1978
Capriccio (flute, 4 percussion) 1979
Pattern Music (bass guitar, 2 synthesizers) 1980
Jazz Poems (5 jazz players, live electronics) 1981
Free Flight II (trumpet, double bass, percussion) 1983
Passacaille (violin, piano) 1988
Changing Perspectives (string quartet) 1990
The Mindfulness of Breathing (4 tubas) 1990
Conversation Piece (flute, oboe, bass clarinet, trumpet, piano) 1991
Neuf Cartes Postales de Cornwall (violin, viola) 1992
Les Cloches de Kastelli (4 percussion) 1994
Montañas del Fuego (clarinet, percussion) 1995
Seven Pieces (bass clarinet, piano) 1995
Le Barachois (violin, cello, piano) 1996
Canzona (11 brass) 1997
Éloges pour Han-Shen (4 percussion) 1998
April Remembered (violin, double bass) 1999
Mouvement Polyphonique (3 trombones, piano) 2001
Guitar Quartet (4 guitars) 2002
Vocal works
Glistenin' Whistle (mixed chorus, flute, French horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, guitar, violin, bass guitar, percussion) 1976
Parfums Exotiques (soprano, flute, cello, piano) 1976
Beatus Vir (mixed chorus) 1987
Hidden Rivers (soprano, piano) 1987
The Gravity of Earth (speaker, synthesizers, percussion, string orchestra, live electronics) 1988
Nisi Dominus (soloists, 4 choruses, orchestra) 1989
Remembering a Woman's Voice (soprano, cello) 1990
White Pearls (baritone, clarinet, French horn, cello, percussion) 1991
Cinq Poèmes de Raymond Guy Leblanc (soprano, lute, 4 percussion, string quartet) 1993
Transfigured Autumn (mixed chorus, small orchestra) 1993
For Daniel (tenor, piano) 1995
Trois Chants Klingons (soprano, 4 flutes, synthesizer, 2 percussion, live electronics) 1995
Poème du Mois de Juillet (soloists, speaker, mixed chorus, 9 percussion) 1999
Works for large ensemble
Synchrony (symphonic band) 1978
Concerto (trombone, orchestra) 1982
Mantras (youth orchestra) 1987
Musique Solennelle (small orchestra) 1987
November Music (14 strings) 1990
Étude Chromatique (symphonic band) 1994
Sinfonietta (symphonic band) 1994
Symphony (orchestra) 1994
A Festive Overture (orchestra) 2000
Neo-Baroque Suite (youth string orchestra) 2002
Discography
Et + Ke 2 – Amerythme (Atlantica Musique 02002) – 1994 (contains Les Cloches de Kastelli for 4 percussion)
Canadian Music for Clarinet – James Mark, clarinet – 1999 (contains Montañas Del Fuego for clarinet and percussion)
Nightingales for Katy – Karin Aurell, flute – 2005 (contains Nightingales for Katy for flute)
Piano Atlantica – Barbara Pritchard, piano (Centrediscs CMC CD 15210) – 2010 (contains Variation and excerpts from 25 Préludes)
Richard Boulanger joue Richard Gibson – musique pour piano seul – 2015 (contains Le 24 décembre 2004, Lepidoptera, 24 Notes, 25 Préludes (excerpts), Prélude, Fugue et Allegro Vivace, and Sarabande)
References
1953 births
Living people
Musicians from Charlottetown
Canadian classical composers
Dalhousie University alumni
University of Western Ontario alumni
Alumni of King's College London
Academic staff of the Université de Moncton